broad-shouldered

English

Adjective

broad-shouldered (comparative more broad-shouldered, superlative most broad-shouldered)

1. Having broad shoulders.
   • 1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:

     Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.

2. Having a sturdy construction or constitution.

Synonyms

• big-shouldered

Translations

having broad shoulders

• Aromanian: plãtãros, bãtalcu
• Catalan: espatllut
• Czech: ramenatý
• Dutch: breedgeschouderd (nl)
• Finnish: harteikas (fi), harteva, leveäharteinen (fi)
• French: large d’épaules
• German: breitschultrig (de)
• Icelandic: herðabreiður
• Polish: barczysty (pl), pleczysty (pl)
• Romanian: spătos (ro)
• Russian: широкопле́чий (ru) (širokopléčij), плечи́стый (ru) (plečístyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плѐћат

  Roman: plèćat

• Slovene: plečàt
• Swedish: bredaxlad (sv)
• Turkish: geniş omuzlu
• Ukrainian: широкоплечий (šyrokoplečyj)